I'm watching the only decent show on Fox News Channel, the Fox News Watch program. I say decent, but in reality it just sucks less than the rest of the stuff on that network. They are covering this Rather/CBS debacle and the word "resignation" is being tossed about after Rather stood behind the reporting his network did. As they point out during their discussion, Rather was given the documents, the research, the people to interview, and the entire package by his news staff. He's not CBS news, he is the anchor.
How is this different than the US President getting some bogus intelligence reports on the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Well, Dan Rather hasn't killed anybody. What these people on Fox appear to be saying (and I don't think they're alone) is that despite the fact that the apparatus failed for Rather, he should be taking his hat and hitting the road while the President, who has jeopardized the credibility of the United States in the world community and killed thousands of people on both sides, is ahead in the polls and only the CIA director has resigned.
I don't think the conspiracy theories about the GOP placing this stuff out there to stir up distraction are true... CBS had a scoop, they ran with it, and they tripped up. However, the whole mess is yet another example of how far off the mark the entire process of political elections are. Reporting on issue becomes more important than the issue? Score one for the political machine, if only in how they managed the foul up.
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